on bootup, I have to choose which MS OS

Vista Home Premium
upon boot up I get a screen that has me select which Windows operating
system I want.

It offers 3 choices
previous OS
Windows Vista
Windows XP

How to I stop this so it automatically starts Vista Home Premium?

please and thank you

"FireBrick" <> wrote in message
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> Vista Home Premium
> upon boot up I get a screen that has me select which Windows operating
> system I want.
>
> It offers 3 choices
> previous OS
> Windows Vista
> Windows XP
>
> How to I stop this so it automatically starts Vista Home Premium?
>
> please and thank you

More info is required - do you have XP and some other OS on the
primary HDD , or did you upgrade from XP to Vista ?.
Best to "tell all " no one here uses Chrystal balls much these days,
they are too unreliable.

rgds
Roberto

Sorry
Yes, I did an upgrade from XP.

I chose the 'upgrade' option instead of the 'clean install' option.

so how do I remove those old OS

please and thank you.
"Roberto le Corneille" <> wrote in message
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>
> "FireBrick" <> wrote in message
> news:udF$...
>> Vista Home Premium
>> upon boot up I get a screen that has me select which Windows operating
>> system I want.
>>
>> It offers 3 choices
>> previous OS
>> Windows Vista
>> Windows XP
>>
>> How to I stop this so it automatically starts Vista Home Premium?
>>
>> please and thank you
>
> More info is required - do you have XP and some other OS on the
> primary HDD , or did you upgrade from XP to Vista ?.
> Best to "tell all " no one here uses Chrystal balls much these
> days, they are too unreliable.
>
> rgds
> Roberto
>

Hi,

Click start, type msconfig and hit <enter> to open the system configuration
utility. Go to the boot tab, select the unwanted entries and click on
delete.

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Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
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My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

"FireBrick" <> wrote in message
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> Vista Home Premium
> upon boot up I get a screen that has me select which Windows operating
> system I want.
>
> It offers 3 choices
> previous OS
> Windows Vista
> Windows XP
>
> How to I stop this so it automatically starts Vista Home Premium?
>
> please and thank you
>
>

"FireBrick" <> wrote in message
news:...
> Sorry
> Yes, I did an upgrade from XP.
>
> I chose the 'upgrade' option instead of the 'clean install' option.
>
> so how do I remove those old OS

You can reduce the timeout to choose which OS to boot to to 0
[zero] effectively not displaying that screen by doing this:
In Vista, right-click Computer, and then choose Properties from the pop-up
menu. Next, click Advanced System Settings and then click the Startup And
Recovery Settings button. This displays the Startup And Recovery window,
where you can select the default OS [Vista in this case] then change the
length of time the Boot Menu appears. Set it to 0 [zero] and you're good to
go

rgds
Roberto

> please and thank you.
> "Roberto le Corneille" <> wrote in message
> news:...
>>
>> "FireBrick" <> wrote in message
>> news:udF$...
>>> Vista Home Premium
>>> upon boot up I get a screen that has me select which Windows operating
>>> system I want.
>>>
>>> It offers 3 choices
>>> previous OS
>>> Windows Vista
>>> Windows XP
>>>
>>> How to I stop this so it automatically starts Vista Home Premium?
>>>
>>> please and thank you
>>
>> More info is required - do you have XP and some other OS on the
>> primary HDD , or did you upgrade from XP to Vista ?.
>> Best to "tell all " no one here uses Chrystal balls much these
>> days, they are too unreliable.
>>
>> rgds
>> Roberto
>>
>
>

Hi FireBrick,

Method Two in this tutorial will show you how to remove a OS from the
boot to options.

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/82...n-default.html

Hope this helps,
Shawn

FireBrick;785862 Wrote:
> Sorry
> Yes, I did an upgrade from XP.
>
> I chose the 'upgrade' option instead of the 'clean install' option.
>
> so how do I remove those old OS
>
> please and thank you.
> "Roberto le Corneille" <whoist@xxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:eyYKEti7IHA.4112@xxxxxx> > >
> > >
> > > "FireBrick" <w9ol@xxxxxx> wrote in message
> > > news:udF$1lg7IHA.3624@xxxxxx> > > > >
> > > >> Vista Home Premium
> > > >> upon boot up I get a screen that has me select which Windows
> > > operating
> > > >> system I want.
> > > >>
> > > >> It offers 3 choices
> > > >> previous OS
> > > >> Windows Vista
> > > >> Windows XP
> > > >>
> > > >> How to I stop this so it automatically starts Vista Home Premium?
> > > >>
> > > >> please and thank you> > > >
> > >
> > > More info is required - do you have XP and some other OS on the
> > > primary HDD , or did you upgrade from XP to Vista ?.
> > > Best to "tell all " no one here uses Chrystal balls much these
> > > days, they are too unreliable.
> > >
> > > rgds
> > > Roberto
> > > > >


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